Tuesday, September 20, 2011

We all have something we can spare, or we can share. The following is a short list of ideas to pare your closets and home and make a real difference in the lives of others.

Clothes, shoes, and handbags:Women in Distress and CareerCloset.org help women find their way back to safety, self-respect, dignity, and lives worth living (and giving).

Furniture, household items, and gently used toys: Faith Farms Ministries and TheGivingEffect.com can take nearly anything and put it to good use.

Books: Consider a run to your local hospital or retirement home; your fave books and writers might find new fans.

New and gently used home repair/remodeling supplies:Habitat Restore will resell; shop there as well!

That old clunker: your local high school auto technician training program can use old cars to train tomorrow’s workers.

The change jar: Even a $10 donation will make a difference to animals awaiting their forever homes—food, toys, bedding, and cleaning supplies are required to keep the animals engaged and the shelters afloat.

A karmatastic life is a way of thinking, doing, being. Collective good deeds have the power to clarify the present, shape the future, and heal the past.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Support Fund Food for Animals every day to feed and care for the millions of pets waiting for their forever homes. It’s free, and your clicks count for something important. Check out their cool merchandise, too.

Don’t buy--adopt. I know personally the joy of opening my door to a pet in need. Click here for a list of shelters throughout the US. Open your heart and you will not regret it.

The karmatastic life is a way of thinking, doing, being. Collective good deeds have the power to clarify the present, shape the future, and heal the past.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Thank you, writers of all of the comics who paid tribute to 9/11, in no particular order: Zits, Doonesbury, The Wizard of Id, Hagar the Horrible, Dennis the Menace, Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Barney & Clyde, Family Circle, Baby Blues, Curtis, Mutts, Mother Goose & Grimm, and Red and Rover. There are probably others, as well.

You bring joy every day to those who read you. Today, your mission is far more important: you honor the lives lost and heroes made on that tragic day.

Everyone should pick up the Sunday paper to read these tributes.

A karmatastic life is a way of thinking, doing, being. Collective good deeds have the power to clarify the present, shape the future, and heal the past.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift—Eleanor Roosevelt

That’s why they call it the present, you know.

Embrace today, with all its guts and glory. Live it boldly and fully, banking all the good deeds you can. Look tolerantly upon the nimrods—they have not yet evolved while you have risen so, so far above.

A karmatastic life is a way of thinking, doing, being. Collective good deeds have the power to clarify the present, shape the future, and heal the past.